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Peter Watt
Is Labour Reverting to Its Bad Old Ways?
Peter Watt admits Labour used to bully people, and wonders if those days are returning.
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Jerry Hayes
Tuesday Diary: Gordon Brown's Very Merry Christmas
Jerry Hayes warns eurosceptics not to visit Birmingham and spills the beans on President Mitterand's run in with the Queen's corgis.
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Tony McNulty
Counterfactual: What If The UK Had Not Gone to War in Iraq in 2003?
Tony McNulty speculates in an extract from the new book PRIME MINISTER BORIS & OTHER THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
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Iain Dale
Weekend Diary: I'm Going to be a Stand Up Comedian
Iain Dale reveals he's about to embark on a new career as a comic. Or has he always been a comedian?
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Julia Hobsbawm
Monday Diary: Brooding & Obsessive - Who Can I Mean?
Julia Hobsbawn says she belongs to a gang called 'ex friends of Gordon Brown' and explains why.
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Jerry Hayes
The Euro-Warping of Human Rights Legislation
Jerry Hayes on why the EHCR needs reforming and the return of Saint Tony. Oh, and a word of warning for Ed M.
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Chris Guyver
The Sporting Passions of Prime Ministers
Chris Guyver examines the sporting proclivities of our prime ministers and emerges with some surprising conclusions.
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Barry Winetrobe
We Need a Mature, Responsible Parliament Which Can Run Itself
Barry Winetrobe says that backbench MPs need to grow a pair and back reforms of the way parliament works. Because it doesn't.
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Lionel Zetter
Plan D: Ditch the Debt Dependency
Lionel Zetter thinks George Osborne should have only one main priority - and that's dealing with debt.
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Scott Colvin
Thursday Diary: Leaving Facebook & The Ragin' Cajun
Scott Colvin explains the joys of the parliamentary recess, why he's left Facebook and recommends a political holiday read.
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Peter Watt
I'd Be Worried If I Was a Tory
Peter Watt suggests David Cameron has failed to seal the deal with the electorate because they don't know what he believes in.
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Jerry Hayes
Not a Good Week for the Browns
Jerry Hayes reckons Gordon Brown made a bit of an arse of himself this week. And as for Labour MP Lyn Brown, well...
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Peter Watt
Labour Must Learn Not to Love Opposition
A sense of moral superiority will not win an election says Peter Watt. And the Labour Party is tending towards liking opposition a little too much.
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Ben Archibald
Brown's Anti-Midas Touch
Gordon Brown is restraining Ed Miliband from achieving his potential, argues Ben Archibald.
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Shane Stone
Ed Miliband Blindsided by Tom Baldwin
Shane Stone says Ed Miliband may well rue the day he threw a protective cloak around his press spokesman.
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Jerry Hayes
Take Advice From Mandelson on Press Freedom? You've Got to be Joking!
Jerry Hayes reckons Peter Mandelson has some brss neck doling out advice on press regulation and freedom.
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Iain Dale
I'm Glad 'Blagging' Has Resurfaced
Gordon Brown has done the country a service today by highlighting the activity of 'blagging'. Iain Dale explains why this is as bad, if not worse than phone hacking and what the consequences will be.
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Tom Harris
‘Mondeo Man’ Was a News of the World Reader
Tony Blair was right to court Rupert Murdoch. It was his job, reckons Tom Harris. Pity Gordon Brown was useless at it.
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Alex Smith
Was This The Week Ed Miliband Came of Age?
Ed Miliband has led the way on the News of the World and made the Prime Minister look edgy and weak. Is this the week that people finally took his seriously, asks Alex Smith.
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Jerry Hayes
Ee Ooop Lad, There'll Be Trouble At T'Miliband
Ed Miliband's cringeworthy interview on the strikes marks a watershed, thinks Jerry Hayes. One Ed will be pleased, but it's not Ed Miliband...